Born out of Microsoft’s SQL Server Big Data Clusters investments, the Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL is a high-performance connector that enables you to use transactional data in ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

The new dbForge for SQL Server 7.0 update is packed with great features to help you manage your databases faster and easier. With improvements to performance, code completion, data tools, and more, it ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Microsoft today released SQL Server 2022, the latest version of its database software, which originally launched more than 33 years ago. Microsoft describes this release as the “most Azure-enabled ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. We are excited to announce general availability of the link feature for Managed Instance for SQL Server 2022–the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet.

SQL Server 2022: Here’s what you need to know Your email has been sent Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database workhorse that powers both an internal line ...

SQL Server 2022 is nearing a public preview release, Microsoft announced on Monday. An Early Adoption Program for SQL Server 2022, which had offered a private preview of Microsoft's coming new ...

Update March 17, 2022: This post has been updated to remove mentions of SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters which has been retired. For more information, see big data options on the Microsoft SQL Server ...